Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
Pedro Huilca, General Secretary of the CGTP (General Confederation of Peruvian Workers), was assassinated on December 18, 1992. This crime occurred in a context of extreme violence in Lima, where the subversive groups Sendero Luminoso and MRTA had intensified their terrorist actions. Huilca's murder was part of a series of …
Pedro Huilca Tecse, General Secretary of the CGTP (General Confederation of Peruvian Workers), was assassinated on December 18, 1992 in Lima. It was initially assumed that the PCP-SL (Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path) was responsible. This assassination was part of a series of attacks against union leaders during …
Juan Andahua Vergara was Secretary of Organization of the CGTP, Secretary General of the National Federation of Workers of Beverages and Soft Drinks and Secretary of Organization of the Coca Cola Workers Union. He was assassinated on August 3, 1992 in Lima. According to the report, he was allegedly murdered …
In July 1992, the lifeless body of mining leader Donato Bernal was found near the Peruvian Club of La Oroya. The murder occurred in a context of intense repression against mining union leaders in the central region of Peru. The alleged perpetrators of the murder are allegedly members of the …
In 1992, union leader Donato Bernal was murdered in La Oroya. His body was found dead near the Club Peruano neighborhood with a bullet in his head. This assassination occurred in a context of violence against union leaders in the mining region, where both the PCP-SL and the forces of …
Rayda Maruja Dávalos Arias was a union leader murdered in Apurímac during 1991. According to CVR records, she held the position of union leader in Trade Unions or Federations of Workers, workers or employees. Her death is part of the offensive of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against social and union leaders …
In 1990, Juan Santiago was elected secretary general of the Cerro de Pasco mine workers union. On the night of the same day of his election, a Shining Path group attempted to assassinate him at his home, but they were unsuccessful. Under his leadership, the union was able to detect …
Alcides Palomino Aronés, leader of SUTEP (Sindicato Único de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú), was assassinated on December 10, 1989 in Ayacucho. According to the report, the perpetrator was allegedly a military patrol. This murder took place in a context of systematic violence against union and social leaders during …
Javier Antonio Alarcón Guzmán, leader of the FENDUP (National Federation of University Teachers of Peru), was kidnapped and disappeared in December 1989 in the department of Junín. This case is part of a series of disappearances and murders of union and social leaders that occurred during the internal armed conflict …
Saturdino Calapuja Salazar, a member of the CGTP (General Confederation of Peruvian Workers), was kidnapped in December 1989 in Lima. After participating in a CGTP meeting, he was kidnapped and ill-treated. He was later found in an agonizing state in downtown Lima. This case is part of a series of …
Demetrio Palomino, leader of the Agrarian Federation of Ayacucho, was assassinated in November 1989. His death was perpetrated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso (PCP-SL) as part of a systematic offensive against social and union leaders in the country. The case was registered in the complaints filed with the International Labor Organization …
Enrique Castilla, textile leader and member of the Central Committee of the Unified Mariateguista Party (PUM), was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso on October 31, 1989. This assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy of selective annihilation of political and union leaders who opposed their revolutionary project. The crime …
On October 31, 1989, a group of hikers assassinated Enrique Castilla Linares, leader of the Union of Workers of the 'La Union' Textile Factory in Ate Vitarte. Castilla was a member of the PUM (Partido Unificado Mariateguista) and had the recognition of the union sector. He was preparing to reject …
On October 31, 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated Enrique Castilla Linares, secretary general of the La Union de Tejidos La Union and a prominent class-conscious union leader of 48 years of age. He was killed with three bullets during the armed strike of November 3. Castilla had been permanently threatened with …
José Luis Aznarán, leader of the National Federation of University Teachers of Peru (FENDUP), disappeared in October 1989 in Lima. His case is part of a series of disappearances and murders of union and social leaders that occurred during that period of the internal armed conflict. The disappearance took place …
Enrique Castilla was a leader of the La Unión Union when he was assassinated in October 1989 in Lima. His death was perpetrated by the PCP-SL (Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path) as part of the subversive group's offensive against union leaders and popular organizations. This assassination occurred in …
On May 7, 1989, as he was leaving an assembly, Antonio Cajachagua Leiva, general secretary of the Morococha mine workers' union, was shot in the head and killed. His former colleagues state that he was also against the strikes and attributed the assassination to the Shining Path. This murder took …
On May 7, 1989, in Morococha, Yauli province, Antonio Cajachagua, General Secretary of the Morococha Mine Workers Union (STMM), was assassinated by a group of hooded men. This assassination took place in the context of a series of selective executions against mining union leaders who had publicly opposed the actions …
On April 16, 1989, members of the PCP-SL assassinated Ceferino Requis, secretary general of the miners' union. The crime was committed in front of hundreds of delegates who were gathered in an assembly of mine workers. This assassination is part of the PCP-SL's strategy of eliminating union and social leaders …
The secretary general of the miners' union, Ceferino Requis, was assassinated by members of the PCP-SL in front of hundreds of delegates during an assembly of mine workers in Huancavelica. This assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy of eliminating union leaders who did not align themselves with their …
On March 2, 1989, the PCP-SL shot and killed Seferino Requis, one of the most representative union leaders in Cerro de Pasco. Requis was a leader trained in the Peasant and Student Workers Front of Peru (FOCEP). The hikers strategically positioned themselves in the place where he was and managed …
Elías Corcuera was a union leader of the United Left (IU) assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in San Martín de Porres during 1989. His assassination took place in the context of a Shining Path strategy of shifting from sabotage to selective assassinations, moving from infiltration of union and neighborhood organizations …
Seferino Requis was a union leader of CENTROMIN - Peru murdered in the city of Cerro de Pasco in 1989. His death occurred in the context of a series of selective assassinations against union leaders and political authorities in the capital of the department of Pasco. Along with Tomas Miranda …
Consuelo García was a union leader assassinated in Lima during 1989. According to the records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, she was a leader of Labor Unions or Federations of Workers, workers or employees. Her death was attributed to the Rodrigo Franco Paramilitary Group, a paramilitary group operating during …
Fidencio Coronel, former union leader and militant of the Communist Party of Peru, was assassinated near his sister's home on October 18, 1988. The day before, in the assembly of the Metalworkers' Union, he had opposed his union's compliance with the second national mining strike, and in fact, the metalworkers …
Alejandro Patiño, former leader of the Morococha Mine Workers Union (STMM) and an APRA militant, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso on October 17, 1988. This assassination took place in the context of important mobilizations and strikes of mining workers demanding the recognition of the single national miners' list proposed …
On October 17, 1988, mining leader Alejandro Patiño Flores was shot in the head and killed in Morococha. The assassination was attributed to alleged Shining Path members of the PCP-SL. Patiño Flores had opposed the national mining strike, as had Fidencio Coronel in La Oroya, who was also murdered the …
Leonidas Gómez Yalico was a union leader of CENTROMIN - Peru who was assassinated in the city of Cerro de Pasco in 1988. His death occurred in the context of death threats to political authorities and political and union leaders in the city since 1980. He was one of three …
In May 1987, the Shining Path assassinated union leader Carlos Melo in Cerro de Pasco. After executing him, the Shining Path left a poster on his body with the message "This is how traitors die". This murder was part of a series of selective executions that the PCP-SL carried out …
The mining leader Teófilo Rímac Capcha was arrested by the military at the Carmen Chico Base in Cerro de Pasco. This arrest occurred in a context of intensified military operations in the mining centers of the region, where the armed forces carried out violent raids on workers' homes in order …
On June 23, 1986, the military arrived at the house of Teófilo Rímac Capcha, leader of the FOCEP (Frente Obrero Campesino y Estudiantil del Perú), whom they arrested along with others and transferred to the Carmen Chico military base. He was the only one who never left the military base. …
On March 19, 1986, during a popular demonstration in Cerro de Pasco, mining leader Tomás Miranda was assassinated by members of the Shining Path. This assassination occurred in the context of the political violence affecting the mining centers of the central highlands of Peru. The event was part of a …
Tomas Miranda Trinidad was a union leader of CENTROMIN - Peru murdered in the city of Cerro de Pasco in 1986. His death is part of a series of assassinations against union leaders and political authorities in the capital of the department of Pasco during the period of political violence. …
In April 1985, mining leader Demetrio Martínez was assassinated with a bullet to the head. He had proposed on several occasions that the mining company Centromín Perú grant a special bonus and medical benefits to cover the consequences of the chemical reagents used by the workers in the extraction of …
Hilario Ayuque Zúñiga, General Secretary of the Intersectoral Confederation of State Workers (CITE) and member of the Huancavelica Human Rights Commission, was arrested on September 20, 1984 at his home by a group of armed people in civilian clothes. His captors put him in a military truck near the Hotel …
In 1984, 6 corpses were found in the place called Ñeque, Tambillos district, Huamanga province. Among them, the union leader Florentino Mendoza was recognized. The bodies were removed by order of the Provincial Prosecutor with the participation of the Police. Mayor Leonor Zamora provided the car of the Municipality for …
Gelacio Bernardo Mendoza, leader of the National Federation of Miners, Metalworkers and Steelworkers of Peru (FNTMMP), was assassinated on March 24, 1983 in Huanzalá, Pasco. His death occurred when the Civil Guard repressed a workers' protest. This assassination occurred in the context of the national strike and labor protests of …
Heraclio Palomino Ayala, leader of the Sindicato Único de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú (SUTEP), was a victim of violence on March 23, 1983 in Paras, Ayacucho. According to the record of complaints to the ILO included in the CVR report, the Civil Guard was responsible for his death. …
Oswaldo Castañeda Filón, leader of SUTEP (Sindicato Único de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú), was kidnapped and disappeared on March 23, 1983 in Ayacucho. This event occurred in the context of the national strike of March 10, 1983 and is part of a series of disappearances and deaths of …
Juan Coaccza Chifana, leader of the Federation of Municipal Workers of Peru, died in May 1980 in Lima. According to complaints filed with the ILO (International Labor Organization), the alleged perpetrator of his death was the Civil Guard. This case is one of the violations of freedom of association documented …
On March 1, Abel Callirgos Granero, secretary general of SUTEP of Callao, died in strange circumstances when two officers were about to arrest him. The circumstances of his death were considered suspicious and occurred during the context of the mining strike and the state of emergency.
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